also write it @{$line} if
it's easier for you to understand.
- Mark.
P.S. The plural of matrix is matrices, not "matrix's"
> -Original Message-
> From: Bruce Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
&
Markham, Richard wrote:
> this explained just about everything and was 10 times less confusing than my
> own broken code.
> where I really get confused in Perl is different situations will return
> ARRAY reference and
> others will return the element.
>
> as an example (printf is obviously better
: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] need help with matrix's
You do not really explain what you need help with. Let me try a
quick rewrite of your code so it looks a bit less like C and maybe
you can ask specific questions. This is u
use strict;
use warnings;
my @newarray;
my ($xnumvar,$xvar,$ynumvar,$yvar,@maxlength);
my @newmatrix=(["123.45","JOHN DOE","Coal Miner"],
["12.45","MR. PEANUT","peanut"],
["4.1","Bill Clinton","unknown"]);
# iterate through each element and gather maximum character length for
